John Lothian Newsletter: The Chicago Way

In Chicago we don’t believe in short selling bans. If you want to go short, you just walk into the trading pit and put your hands up in the air facing out and yell “SELL 4 at 6,” or something like that. If you want to sell some futures electronically, you just hit sell on your screen, or lean on the keyboard in the right way. Or is it the wrong way?

We believe short selling is an...